The only problem is that I don't want to encourage my students - it's
hard enough to persuade them to reference proper academic journals and
not Wikipedia (or other unrefereed online sources) these days...
David.
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>This is a good idea. Wikipedia can also be used in your
>classes to give students a sense of what it's like to publish
>and publicly present arguments. I had my grad students
>contribute to wikipedia last fall in my digital cartography
>class. The students researched a topic not already in
>wikipedia (or covered only marginally) then wrote up a
>research paper. They also posted a shorter version of the
>paper online. In this way they not only contributed to
>wikipedia, but created something that lasted beyond the class itself.
>
>I will probably do this again, but I would say it's much
>harder to invest in wikipedia than it is simply to use it.
>Investing means going back and checking on your work and takes
>a certain committment.
>
>Beware that wikipedia's popularity works against it: the
>official status right now is "appallingly slow."
>
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